[Kzyxtalk] Context collapse.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Context collapse.

The recording of last night's (2020-12-18) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0415

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find not only 
a detailed description of the contents of that show, including the story 
of my Toyota's catalytic converter being stolen, which I'm twisting my 
own arm to keep from putting here, but also a fresh batch of dozens of 
links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless worthwhile 
educational items I set aside for you while gathering the show together. 
Such as:

Ze Frank true facts: army ant riders.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/12/true-facts-army-ant-riders.html

Trailer for the upcoming /Shadow in the Cloud/. You can always sell me a 
story about a competent fearless woman saving the day and the world 
despite the arrogant goofball men who just get in her way. Think Peggy 
Carter: Agent of Shield, or Ripley in the Alien franchise, or that 
warrior Valkyrie woman in The Mandalorian, which I haven't seen this 
year of yet; don’t tell me anything about it. Re: /Shadow in the Cloud/: 
flying werewolves, like the Swiss flag, are a big plus.
https://theawesomer.com/shadow-in-the-cloud-trailer/603025/

And a short film about the man who invented wind-up clacking teeth, the 
bubble gun, hula-dancing solar-powered plastic window plants and 800 
more things we all use every day. /I love it that this man exists./ He 
invented the gun-in-the-hat. (That was a regular cowboy hat where, if 
some other nine-year-old cowboy came up behind you with a cap-gun 
six-shooter (with paper roll caps, more like a hundred-shooter, though 
every fourth or fifth cap didn't work right) and said, “Stick 'em up!”, 
you could turn around to face him, politely take your hat off and turn 
it upside down, the way you just naturally do, and a little cap-gun 
would pop up out of it on a spring-lever and automatically shoot the kid 
who was robbing you.) He didn't invent the /original/ large Galapagos 
turtle with revolving clockwork eyes and extra string, but he 
popularized one affordable by the masses. The Vac-U-Form set. Battling 
Tops. Kerplunk! (the game). You'll see all that and more here. (20 min.)
https://laughingsquid.com/inventor-who-designed-800-toys-and-games/

p.s. If you want me to read on the radio something that you've written, 
just email it to me and that's what I'll do on the very next Memo of the 
Air. That's what I'm here for.

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Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com